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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online education are enabling learners all over the world to take part in online classes. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like YouTube to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better perceive these open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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